We need to question deletions and exclusions from school textbooks | The Indian Express

We need to question deletions and exclusions from school textbooks | The Indian Express

Written by Avijit Pathak |Updated: April 8, 2019 7:24:26 am

Avijit Pathak teaches at JNU

We need to question deletions and exclusions from school textbooks

We also need to see knowledge as an experience of enchantment, not an act of consumption. It is high time we took the debate beyond merely the content of knowledge — Aurangzeb or Shivaji, Savarkar or Ambedkar, Vedic rites or Nizamuddin Auliya’s verses

It is high time we took the debate beyond merely the contents of knowledge — Aurangzeb or Shivaji, Savarkar or Ambedkar, Vedic rites or Nizamuddin Auliya’s verses. (Illustration: CR Sasikumar)

“Schools do not merely ‘process’ people; they ‘process’ knowledge as well. They enhance and give legitimacy to particular types of cultural resources which are related to unequal economic forms” — Michael Apple, Ideology and Curriculum.